Videos
For travelers, wildlife strikes to airplanes are no laughing matter. According to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the number of wildlife strikes to civil aircraft annually has increased 7.4-fold: from 1,851 in 1990 to a record 13,668 in 2014.
Videos
Last week, you read about shelter dogs that are finding employment—and a new lease on life—as conservation officers in the University of Washington’s Conservation Canines (CK9) program. In the video below, you’ll see some of these dogged deputies in action.
Conservation
Radio collars, GPS tracking devices and remote-controlled drones—when it comes to monitoring wildlife, it’s easy to get caught up in high-tech devices. It turns out, however, that our best tool for endangered species conservation work might be the least technological of all.
Videos
Sometimes it takes our four-footed best friends to remind us what adventures are all about and what being outdoors can do for us—mentally, physically and spiritually. In 1999, Portland, Oregon-based photographer and cinematographer Ben Moon walked into an animal shelter and met a pit bull-husky mix he later named Denali.
Travel Tales
When you first start exploring beyond your home ground, you tend to see everything in relation to where you live: what’s different, what’s similar, what’s unheard of and what’s exactly the same. I suppose it’s our way of getting a grip on new surroundings and beginning to have them make sense.
Galapagos Islands
Last month, three very special passengers arrived at Seattle’s Sea-Tac airport. Terminator, Luna and Jonathan are recently retired Galapagos police dogs who had come all the way from Ecuador to meet their new caretakers, after spending five years sniffing out illegal wildlife products from the Galapagos islands.
Videos
My dog can count. I’m sure of this fact. After her daily walk, if she doesn’t receive precisely two treats, I will hear about it. If I try to shortchange her by offering only one, she will hound me until the second one is produced.
Videos
Anyone who has lived with a dog at any time in his or her life knows that they are masters at reading us; they understand by the tone in our voices whether we’re angry, sad, happy or excited. Our dogs then usually mirror our own moods.
News & More
Dogs in the office at Nat Hab’s Colorado headquarters are nothing new, since our dog-friendly policy has been a long-standing feature.
Travel Tales
A New Zealand Travel Tale brought to you by Valerie Wimberley, Air Travel Specialist at Nat Hab There are many reasons people travel to New Zealand.
Travel Tales
This travel tale is brought to you by Megan Bryant, NHA Africa Adventure Director Last month, I was enjoying a stay at Savuti Camp in the Linyanti Reserve of northern Botswana, a place I had been before and one that tends to exceed expectations in wildlife viewing.
Videos
Howling is just one of many forms of vocal communication used by canines. Even though they may bark, growl, moan, snarl, whimper, whine, woof and yelp a lot more often than they howl, it is often the howl that we associate them with the most often, especially when thinking of wolves.
